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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Devil Harvest Religious
A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Animal Capture Hare
But the shortest works are always the best.
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Best Short Work
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Burden Ourselves Secret
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Beggar Better Choice Emperor Live
The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Conquer Heart Oneself Victory
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Flower Glory Leadership Road
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Hold Love Prudent
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Fools Pleasure
A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Different Grand Stage Universe
Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Blow Change Himself Way
Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Equality Ourselves
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Father Impossible World
Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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Condition Present Request Satisfaction Worst
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Appearance Judgement Live
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery

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